KZN special needs schools face possible closure next year: SANASE
KZN special needs schools face possible closure next year: SANASE
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Two accused linked to rotten food distribution case granted bail
Court gavel A 75-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man have been granted bail after handing themselves over to the Hawks in Secunda, Mpumalanga. Wilhemina Jacoba and Phakamani Hlongwane are allegedly linked to Pieter Grober and his family, who were earlier arrested for distributing rotten and expired food for human consumption. The two accused, alongside the…
Safety concerns force shutdown of Petrusburg Labour Centre
A picture that shows one of the Dept of Labour offices in SA The Department of Employment and Labour in the Free State has closed down its Petrusburg Labour Centre following an attack on one of its officials. The department has declined to provide further details on the attack. The department’s Spokesperson, Tshego Mogapi says staff members…
Umzinto suspect believed to have committed suicide, families grieve
Family of a victim stabbed to death allegedly by a 39-year-old man at Malangeni Phase 2 in Umzinto Families of five victims, who were stabbed to death allegedly by a 39-year-old man at Malangeni Phase 2 in Umzinto on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, are angry and devastated. It is alleged that Lungisani Shabane, who is now believed to have taken…
King Misuzulu stalls Ingonyama Trust board’s strategic forum
Tensions continue between the Ingonyama Trust Board and the AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini. This, after King Misuzulu halted a planned three-day strategic engagement forum of the Ingonyama Trust Board with traditional authorities, citing that, as the Chairperson, he was not informed about the meeting. The King is the sole trustee of the Trust, which administers…
North West police uncover drugs worth millions
Drugs that were confiscated Six people were arrested and drugs worth millions of rands were discovered by police at a laboratory in Makapanstad in the North West. According to spokesperson for the Hawks Colonel Katlego Mogale, a member of the Western Cape Serious Organised Crime Investigation as well as the counter-narcotics and gangs unit in…
Masemola says progress made in Witness D’s murder investigation
Witness D’s car National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says they are making progress on the assassination of Marius Van Der Merwe or Witness D as he was known in the Madlanga Commission. He says three persons of interest have been identified and one has already been questioned as part of the ongoing investigation. Van…
DOJ must draw up plan to protect whistleblowers: Contralesa
File | Contralesa President Kgosi Mokoena addressing a CoGTA event in Mpumalanga. Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) President Kgosi Mathupa Mokoena says the Department of Justice (DOJ) must come up with a plan to protect whistleblowers and witnesses after Marius van der Merwe was assassinated over the weekend. Last month, Van der…
Arrests imminent in Saulsville shooting case: Masemola
National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola briefing the media in Saulsville, 8 Dec 2025. National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says the arrest of three suspects is imminent following the murder of 12 people at a tavern in Saulsville, Pretoria. Thirteen others were injured. One of the three suspects is a parolee who was released in…
Sixteen KZN Education staff face disciplinary over irregular tender
FILE | Mobile toilets A special tribunal has ordered that 16 officials of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education face disciplinary action for being implicated in the unlawful awarding of a multi-million rand chemical toilet contract. The Special Investigating Unit found that the contract valued at more than R2.5 million was irregularly awarded in June 2020…